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Groundless pessimism about the future can be lethal. Climate change can kill. Not just furnace-like summer heat with its killer bushfires, not killer floods sweeping away livestock, houses and [...]

The death of a 104-year-old Australian scientist in a suicide clinic in Switzerland is a tragedy, not a triumph of self-affirmation. In May this year, a 104-year-old Australian scientist gave a [...]

by Michael Cook Tennis legend Margaret Court is being pilloried for opposing same-sex marriage. More and more our debates about same-sex marriage resemble the toxic rhetoric of the 1930s. Even [...]